Re: Subject: Fighting qualities of Italians

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> Machine guns, yes. The German rifle seem to have
> considered upright targets 
> moving at a slow walk to be considerably easier to
> hit than crouching 
> targets moving at the run, though.

Indeed.  But it all comes back to, IIRC the fact that
Germans had twice as many machine guns per batallion
as their competition.  The French believed they were
too 'defensive minded' and the British had some sort
of delusions about the efficacy of rifle fire (which,
granted were true:  If your army consists entirely of
long-service professionals most of whom have combat
experience).

> >Game: DBR
> 
> ...*early modern*...? Ah, well, if you say so
> <shrug>

>From 1500-1700 or so.	No other good term to cover
that category.

> in friendly games I 
> don't see any reason to not give the attacker a
> force advantage to make an 
> interesting game out of it.

The problem with DBx series of games is that armies
tend to large enough to take up the whole table.  I
would have been wiling to fight the battle with even
numbers, but the solution to the tactical problem is
this: Keep the Knights of St. John deployed in front
of the Ottomans and mounted so that if they break
formation they get run down.  Pack up everyone else,
march them a couple miles upstream, and head straight
for the Ottoman camp.  Unfortunately, there just ain't
room to do this on a DBR table.

John

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